Built Environment Networking Blog: South East News

JR Capital and ChanceryGate £150m urban logistics fund acquires 12 units on Eastbourne’s Compton industrial estate

An industrial estate comprising 12 units totalling 121,780 sq ft on Compton Industrial Estate in Eastbourne has been acquired by a £150m multi-let urban logistics investment fund. Managed by property investment company JR Capital and asset manager Chancerygate, the fund acquired the industrial estate from a joint venture between commercial property business Canmoor and investment […]

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Kadans buys Oxford Biomedica Windrush Court Site for £60m

Kadans Science Partner will add Windrush Court in Oxford, UK to its Pan-European portfolio. The asset will be acquired from Oxford Biomedica in a sale and lease back transaction. Windrush Court is a c.75,000 sq ft building which will be leased back, in its entirety, to Oxford Biomedica. Oxford Biomedica works across key viral vector […]

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Kadans continues Oxford expansion with Windrush Innovation Centre purchase

Kadans Science Partner will add Windrush Innovation Centre in Oxford, UK to its Pan-European portfolio. The asset will be freehold acquired from Tozi Limited. Kadans intends to demolish the existing building and create over 60,000 sq ft of new high specification laboratory and office space in partnership with the tenant, Oxford Biomedica. Oxford is a […]

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Kadans secures planning consent for purpose-built laboratory and office building at Merlin Place, Cambridge

Kadans Science Partner has received planning approval from Cambridge City Council for the development of a new, purpose-built laboratory and office building at Merlin Place, Cambridge, a new Gateway Building for the Cambridge North Cluster. The six-storey 139,000 sq ft building allows for full flexibility from a single to multi tenant split. The design includes south-facing balconies […]

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Kennedy Wilson acquires premier office campus on the South Coast in £61m deal

Global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson has acquired Forum, a wholly-owned institutional quality office campus for $81 million. Located on the South Coast of the UK, midway between Southampton and Portsmouth, the Forum includes 252,000 square feet of office space across five buildings on a picturesque 30-acre site with lakes, trails, and lush landscaping. […]

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Kennedy Wilson adds Two UK Industrial Warehouse Assets

Global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson has acquired two industrial warehouse assets in the UK totaling c. 181,500 square feet via separate transactions. The properties occupy prime distribution locations within the UK’s logistics Golden Triangle and core South-East market. Situated only eighteen miles north-east of central London, the single-let unit at Westside Business Park […]

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King’s Oak to acquire McKay Securities residential conversion in £19m deal

McKay Securities Plc (McKay), the only UK REIT specialising entirely in the South East and London office, industrial and logistics markets, announces that it has exchanged contracts to sell the freehold interest of Great Brighams Mead, a prominent office building located in Reading’s town centre, to residential property developer King’s Oak. The sale price of […]

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Kingsbridge Estates acquires strategic logistics development site at Segensworth, near Southampton

Leading commercial property developer Kingsbridge Estates has completed the purchase of a 4.7-acre site at Segensworth, near Southampton, and will bring forward plans to deliver a new industrial development. The Chichester-based developer, working with a joint venture partner, has acquired Chartwell Court and proposes to submit a planning application to develop a new 110,000 sq.ft […]

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